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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  inexperienced climber, Chris '10, who's in pretty good shape, and me, who used to ... we wandered around for a bit trying to find them before succumbing to ... Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  stick Using a gum wrapper in an attempt to create sparks Using hand ... nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston ... made a stop in New Hampshire to walk the Artists Bluff Trail, which is a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  to get my Brass Rat 12) Unknowingly ended up in a private Sting ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!! I like to call this one “Cyd in 3-D” So without further ado, I will ... what I’m called as long as it’s in some way related to me. This is

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  during the Q&A following the reading, it was used at least twice in ... A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of ... , who is a ballerino, has been using my bedroom as a dance studio in the ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class ... people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it ... live in the house and helped me grow closer to my sorority a lot more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last ... get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area or in Kendall Square's own Food Court. A favorite stop of mine is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  Vincent are like me tbh Me when I use ChatGPT to make jokes ... I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... think flawless is about the last word even Adam would use to describe me. In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool ... perspective, and the disciplined exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help advise creative projects in the office and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  curriculum. You should do your best and use your judgment in asking for letters of recommendation. In some cases, you may ask a teacher who you thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  windows ;), find a scenic route to class. Create things, collect things ... expected a wall, now wondered what they were capable of. It was in this ... later I discover it in a box under my bed. I don't remember putting it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  housing lottery, it's a good idea to pack a suitcase with about a week ... room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to ... myself without the energy to stand up anymore and fell asleep at a table in ... weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  made me a 'ghost'. I essentially lived in my lab, coming home to my dorm ... , and I was in no way obligated to work that much. I ended up joining a ... 'm working full time in a robotics lab at UMass Lowell; I'm working to port

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  . On Saturday I got some basic instruction on how to use a lathe, which ... contemplated walking back to the shop in the snow for about half a second. I ... giving a presentation, so I dropped in to watch) on my way to the grocery

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... Google Drive. Already a struggle to stay relevant in the two years since I ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014